Will I get a gui on my device?

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ioverreact

I have a HP Inc. HP Pavilion Desktop 510-p199na with AMD A10-9700 quad-core APU, Integrated AMD Radeon R7 graphics and 16DDR4-2133.

I tried installing FreeBSD on this machine around 2 years ago. It would install but getting a gui was impossible. Does anyone know if there have been any changes or updates that would allow me to install a gui or am I flogging the proverbial dead horse?
 
MG said:
Should be no problem. What's on it now?
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Nothing at the moment. I'd inherited it along with a HP Pavilion 570-a111na Desktop PC, AMD A9-9430 dual-core APU, Integrated AMD Radeon R5 graphics and tried to install FreeBSD on both. It was fine on the first PC with the exception I just couldn't get a gui working (I'd read the relevant handbook sections until I knew it by heart 🙈). The second chewed on it a bit and didn't like it so I installed Arch on it. They've both been sitting in the attic for about a year because I had life events to deal with but I've started setting up a new home lab and don't want them to go to waste. I'd rather use freeBSD on at least one of them.
 
ioverreact said:
was impossible
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It shouldn't be impossible. If something doesn't work, don't despair. Post the problem in these forums or search for a solution using some other sources of information (traditional or new) and you'll succeed. I always manage to have some problem or another when I get to the point where I have installed the video driver or X or Wayland, but with a little patience I always end up getting the job done (I haven't made so many installations: 2 on my real computers and a few on VMs).

In my case, though, the handbook wasn't enough to fix the problems I managed to step into: I had to resort to other sources (Internet and these modern things I'd rather not mention). It's the truth. Other people have better luck than me.
 
My intention is to use one or both of them as servers behind a second router. I'll be setting up OpenBSD on a Lenovo M900 Tiny to use as a second router behind my Virgin Media router to keep my home lab separate from other devices. I have an Acer Aspire TC-1760 which will have Proxmox, Jellyfin and TrueNAS installed on it. I plan on using the two HP Pavillion desktops for running a webserver, Bind9 and Postfix for practice behind the second router. I don't have much experience with freeBSD jails and wanted to learn. I've found a tutorial for BastilleBSD and want to give it a go 👍
 
ioverreact said:
My intention is to use one or both of them as servers behind a second router. I'll be setting up OpenBSD on a Lenovo M900 Tiny to use as a second router behind my Virgin Media router to keep my home lab separate from other devices. I have an Acer Aspire TC-1760 which will have Proxmox, Jellyfin and TrueNAS installed on it. I plan on using the two HP Pavillion desktops for running a webserver, Bind9 and Postfix for practice behind the second router. I don't have much experience with freeBSD jails and wanted to learn. I've found a tutorial for BastilleBSD and want to give it a go 👍
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I would bet on installing a base-only system on both and try to get a graphical X.org screen without anything else using pkg install. Then try to start any simple Xorg program from another vt terminal and see it it appears on the graphical screen. It you're there, everything else like browsers and editors works too. You can stay with xinit and ~/.xinitrc to start all programs that form a desktop or install a desktop application set like Xfce or KDE. They are usually better at copy/paste to all programs.
 
"Issue" with X clipboard is how many modern desktop apps don't give a rats ass about it, and will happily just select something without you ever dragging the mouse over. Click once on the Firefox URL bar and your selection for clipboard has been overwritten. But that can be mended with having X clipboard history app running in the tray. What is more annoying is how many console programs, looking at you neovim and mc, want to handle the mouse and the clipboard in their own way and don't honor X clipboard and selection/mid click per default
 
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